Individuals with specific training or duties can be criminally liable for "depraved indifference." I was literally one hour out of basic training and standing on Hyde Street in San Francisco. 98 y/o Tilly Zimmerman was in the crosswalk and struck by a speeding Cable Car ( tough to do, but possible.) I provided first aid until the paramedics and this huge irish SFPD sargent arrived. The car operator stood there smoking a cigarette. The cop hopped on and gave him a thorough tongue lashing which included threats of the USCG impounding his vessel pending a maritime board of inquiry. But then he was a Cavanagh <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> When I was later reassigned to the Bay area, those cablecarmen sort of took a deep breath when a coastie was in the crowd <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />